We analyze the efficiency and productivity growth of a representative sample of Portuguese hospitals from 1997 to 2004 … change. The results show that, on average, Portuguese hospitals did not experience productivity growth during the period … analyzed. In addition, the incidence of positive productivity growth across Portuguese hospitals was remarkably low. …

unionizations in California between 1996 and 2005. We find that hospitals with a successful union election outperform hospitals with … a failed election in 12 of 13 nurse sensitive patient outcomes measures. We also find that hospitals with a unionization … hospital-specific trends, we find that unionized hospitals also outperform hospitals without any union election in the same 12 …

hospitals change their provision of care to insured heart attack patients in response to reduced revenues, the evidence I have …

This paper uses an unusual administrative dataset covering the universe of French hospitals to consider hospital … employment: this is consistently higher in public hospitals than in Not-For-Profit (NFP) or private hospitals, even controlling … for a number of measures of hospital output. NFP hospitals serve as a benchmark, being very similar to Public hospitals …

are collected on the top-100 U.S. hospitals in 2009, as identified by a widely-used media-generated ranking of quality, in … executive officers of these hospitals are then traced by hand. The CEOs are classified into physicians and non …

In this paper, we use Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to estimate how well China’s urban areas absorb migrant workers …

This study measures productivity growth using the Metafrontier Malmquist-Luenberger productivity growth index (MML …-Luenberger (ML) productivity growth index. MML has two advantages compared with the ML index. The former is able to consider … index is employed to measure productivity growth and decompose its components in 14 Korean industrial sectors during the …

We estimate the impact of workforce diversity on productivity, wages and productivity-wage gaps (i.e. profits) using … econometric issues, show that educational (age) diversity is beneficial (harmful) for firm productivity and wages. The … industries. Overall, findings do not point to sizeable productivity-wage gaps except for age diversity. …

between wage/productivity differentials and the firm's labor composition in terms of part-time and sex. Findings suggest that … lower wages for women, relatively higher productivity for part-timers). Interactions between gender and part-time suggest … that the positive productivity effect is driven by male part-timers working more than 25 hours, whereas the share of female …